"Big Brother"

by Cheryl Merrick

The ominous "Big Brother",
predicted by a 1950 futuristic novelist,
who watched your every move
and controled even your thoughts,
morphed in the second millennia.

The fearful black-hooded figure of doom
has donned the colorful, excessively helpful,
and incredibly persuasive guise of
Google, Bing, and Yahoo,
and the chatty friendliness of Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest.


Today, ever present public surveillance cameras
are accepted as normal
often giving us a sense of security.
Our computers not only know where we are,
but what and how we are doing.
Every object searched for and bought
on the internet is monitored.
We expect all the enticing advertising
which quickly appears on our screen.

"Big Brother" has finally come,
and we have welcomed
him into in our lives.